welcome to the fest

huh, doesn't taste as good as the real deal, hey Sam?

(jsyk, anyone can post these here if they see it's missing \o I'm just doing it cause it's a nice little "tradition" kept in the old forum to organize discussion xD)

Do those two have names? Categories? Context of any sort? ANYTHING?

I believe one of them is bondage - should be obvious who, and the other one I don't remember... but I guess they did indeed have names. AND context. It was made the day they arrived: one represents the military and the other... well... basically what Sam likes to do with impoverished and refugee people. I'll try to find their first appeareances.

Okey, so I made some detailed and extensive research for their background and it goes waaaaaaay back in the general story of the comic... it's really kind of impressive... how much time I dedicated to do this. So much time. I almost regret it, but okay!! The story is widely spread out through the years, no wonder you don't remember... let's start from the beggining:

So, once upon a time Liberty just didn't want to have sex and Uncle Sam gotta a little pissed over that, so, behind her back, he started to watch exploitation porn (do I have to mention how full of metaphors this is?). But one day she find that out and it breaks her heart. We are reminded of a lesson Sam should've learned when Liberty and him where young, but as we just saw, he didn't.

Liberty finds herself desolated, and Nique shows and try and cheer her up a bit. She vents with Nique and then goes back home and tries to talk to Sam about all the terrible things he's been doing, but he doesn't listen to her. He later apologizes for his behavior, and Liberty tries to convincee him to stop being so destructive and fight restarts and Sam is left disgruntled. Liberty is upset, and they keep on fighting over Sam's issue, in kind of a hot 'n cold relationship...

Liberty keeps on being sad she can't convince Sam to quit porn, and that's when she meets Xanthe, who tells her she should dump Uncle Sam. But she doesn't, and the same scenario where they try to convince eachother of their own ideals, in Sam's case "ideals" resumes. We see that, since their younger years they have that disagreement over power and how to use it... Sam can't believe he's wrong or losing what he once believe in, which is freedom, even when confronted with the truth (cause he ate from the tree of knowledge). Liberty's still by his side, but she can't take that truth about him anymore. She sees it everywhere she go. Especially because the sisterhood is taking action.

Liberty tries to convice Sam to quit porn one last time. And he tries to convice Liberty to join him in the addiction. They do not see eye to eye anymore. Liberty leaves for good.

We accompany Liberty on her road to find herself. At first she decides to stay in an hotel, but after being spied on by the devil, God, and"journalists" when she wents out for a walk, she goes incognito and finds herself watching one of Nique's shows!
Soon the rogue fembot joins her, they both enter the place - to avoid papparazzis - and end up becoming friends..

Meanwhile, Sam's sad he lost Liberty, and finally realizes why she left . Also that... his time's up. And Liberty's not coming back to the man he became. And then he wanders off. And swallows. And swallows. And get into his Sam bot. And swallows and drink. Liberty sees that on TV and blames the Devil for with, which he shrugs off by telling her it wasn't only his credit.

Uncle Sam ends up lost in his sorrow, and finds himself in a crappy and violent place, that, for his utter dismay, it's not some third world country, but his own USA. Shocked, he tries to stop his own wrong doing, but he's overpowered by corporations, and given, by the Devil, his new mistresses or "wives", to substitute his lack of Liberty: their names are Bondage and Domination. Which, imho, are just the personalizations of what he's being doing since it's infancy, but now he doesn't have Liberty on his side to vouch for him anymore.

The metaphors are strong, but don't be too shaken by it. It's pretty much common sense by now...

And that's it. I did took the long way home on this, didn't I? Worth it.

(If I said something that sounded weird it's because english is not my first language)